If WWE made a movie this would be it.

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2013)

Just went and saw the movie this afternoon, and even though I had a very low expectation, the movie still surprised me with its corny acting, pretentious and unrealistic plot, and largely WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) inspired action sequence.
If you are age 8 and below, you will invariably enjoy this. This movie is designed from the outset for the 8 year olds. The plot is superficial and kept to the minimum - giant robots battles giant monsters, and that's pretty much it, even though it is pretty illogical and doesn't take a 9 year olds to see why you would need giant robots at all to battle these monsters - it would be far more economical to just build 1000 cannons that fires exactly the same type of projectiles the giant robots used to defeat the monsters.
The acting was also pretty cringe worthy, truly some spectacular C-grade stuff, with Max Martini and Robert and Kazinsky pretending to be Australians with their laughable faux Australian accent. Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi were decent, but the plot made their efforts seem cartoonish, while Idris Elba's acting was just down right corny; with Charlie Day and Burn Gorman as sideshows to round out the cast. Cartoonish acting aside, this movie continues the same disturbing Hollywood tradition of racial stereotypes - the Chinese and the Russians were dispensable and dispatched quickly early in the movie, while "the token black guy" Idris Elba (the ONLY black guy in the movie) was also dispensable and died in the movie.
There is also a very clear plagiarism happening throughout the movie - "aliens" attacked the earth, humanity is on the verge of extinction, nerdy scientist got in alien's brain and figured out how to defeat them, and the movie ends with the good guy (and a gal) "took out the little master aliens with the nuke".... sounds familiar? You would mistaken this for Independence Day (1996).
Over all, it is as entertaining as watching WWE on TV. You would enjoy it if you are an 8 year old or a redneck (or both!). 3/10